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Flower Crab Spider
Thomisus pugilis
14.083, 75.3453
Field Notes
Description:
Found this beautiful and colorful crab spider in a flowering plant in my home.. These spiders are brightly coloured. The cephalothorax is quite low but raised near the middle with flat cephalus sloping slowly downwards to a wide carina at the front and sloping more steeply on the sides and thorax. The thorax is quite wide as long as broad with its anterior margin bearing pointed horns. The abdomen is flat on top and is obliquely truncated at the front and rear with a pentagonal shape. The sides diverge from the carinate anterior edge to two distinct rounded tubercles which lie at the limit of the flat upper surface. From the tubercles the sides drop away very steeply and converge to the spinnerets. Legs are smooth, the first and second pairs much robust than the third and fourth. Ventral side of the tibia and metatarsal of the first and second pairs bear spines.
Habitat:
Normally found on flowering plants.
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